Echola OS414-MM Quick Installation Manual

Manual is about: 20 PORT (4 1x4 DUPLEX ) OPTICAL switch

Summary of OS414-MM

  • Page 1

    Os414-mm – 20 port (4 1x4 duplex ) optical switch quick installation & operating guide echola systems l.L.C 1161 ringwood ct, ste 100 san jose, ca-95131 phone: 408 321 9663 fax: 408 321 9663 http://www.Echola.Com.

  • Page 2

    2.

  • Page 3

    3 os414 is a linux based 20 port (4 1x4 duplex) optical switch used in patch panel automation applications. It provides a serial (rs232) and an ethernet (10/100) port connectivity for management. Serial port is normally used in special situations such as to debug network connectivity if os414 is not...

  • Page 4

    4 configuring configuring configuring configuring dynamic dynamic dynamic dynamic ip ip ip ip if you have a dhcp server running on your network and you want to dynamically assign an available ip address to os414 then use following option. # osctl osctl osctl osctl ----d d d d make sure you know the ...

  • Page 5

    5 os414’s front panel has 4 port blocks each with 5 lc duplex connectors numbered left to right and top to bottom from 1 to 4. Each port block is an individual duplex 1x4 optical switch, consists of 1 input port labeled as “in” and 4 output ports labeled as “o1”, “o2”, “o3” and “o4”. Even though we ...

  • Page 6

    6 the switching of light from input port to any of the four output ports can be achieved using a command line interface. To simply the operation, all functions are provided in a single command called “osctl”. Osctl provides 3 major functions 1. Network & host configuration (allowed only in “root”) 2...

  • Page 9

    9 port group management port group management commands provide convenience of switching bunch of ports together identified by a name. Group name can be any alpha-numeric name. Group name can not be just a number or start with a number. For example group name can not be “10” or 10gp1. The following a...

  • Page 10

    10 $ osctl osctl osctl osctl – –– –llll lists ports in group, like groupname: ports in the group: 1 2 3 4 $ osctl osctl osctl osctl – –– –r r r r delete all groups in the database. Troubleshooting if you use telnet and is very slow, it could be due to name server / dns issue. Make sure you have name...

  • Page 11

    11 electrical input power 100-240 ac total power consumption serial port 1x rs232 networking 1x 10/100 ethernet optical connectivity 20 duplex multimode lc ports data rate no limitation - physical layer switch wavelength (nm) 850/1300 optical technology 1x4 electro-mechanical-optical switch insertio...

  • Page 12

    12 os414 ports can be cascaded to use as a 1x13 switch. This might be useful if you want to share 13 optical devices with one other optical device. Note that cascading increases the insertion loss but that shouldn’t an issue for most of the applications. To get a 1x13 configuration you will have to ...

  • Page 13

    13 for port9 # osctl osctl osctl osctl – –– –p 1 4 p 1 4 p 1 4 p 1 4 ------------ (1) # osctl osctl osctl osctl – –– –p 2 4 p 2 4 p 2 4 p 2 4 -------------(2) # osctl osctl osctl osctl – –– –p 3 3 p 3 3 p 3 3 p 3 3 -------------(3) for port10 # osctl osctl osctl osctl – –– –p 1 4 p 1 4 p 1 4 p 1 4 -...

  • Page 14

    14 if you have any technical questions and need help you can send email to support@echola.Com or call 408-321-9663. You can also download latest documents and software from our website www.Echola.Com . Contact info.